and so in a sense they've got to do it and can obama expend kind of the emotional energy to sit down with all these republicans, which i think is something he hates to do, just visceraly, and work it out, roll up their sleeves and say, let's do this, let's trade this for that. you need the joe biden -- the old tip o'neil-reagan world, one for you, one for me. chris: how about the old bill clinton thick of inviting everybody down to arkansas? i think they can do something really good by cutting corporate rates. that's something obama's talked about doing as a give me to the other side and then fight for the higher rates for the top people. i think he can put the deal down so it's probusiness. the news organizations conducted exit polls in presinlts around the country and one finding goes a long way to explaining mitt romney's big challenge in this race. asked which man was more in touch with you, 53% of voters on tuesday said barack obama. and 43% said mitt romney. that 10-point deficit proved fatal to romney. romney never recovered from missteps that labeled him too rich to understan